Meet Dr Hibba Mahdi, the 31–year–old Belfast woman, who, like many, left Northern Ireland to attend university in England. After that, Ms Mahdi’s ambitions led her to the Caribbean and eventually to Cairo, Egypt.

Let’s be honest. If you picked 100 people and asked them to name ten things that are manufactured in Northern Ireland you can be pretty sure that by the end of it you could count on one hand the number of times someone answered ‘surfboards’.

Born in Belfast but raised in Canada, Janice Muldoon’s identity and sense of home has never been in doubt. For Janice, ‘home’ has always been Northern Ireland. After years of deliberating she and her husband Brian finally decided to make the move to Northern Ireland. This is their experience…

Things are looking good for Northern Ireland going into 2016.
Like most other regions in the UK and Ireland things have improved in recent times in terms of jobs, investment and new business.
Some industries have grown so rapidly here that it’s left skills shortages in some surprising sectors, namely – Accountancy, finance, analytics and legal.